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2014 will be record repaving year
YOUNGSTOWN
Private companies are paying for the repaving this year of between 50 and 70 miles of roads they are using, and sometimes damaging, in Mahoning County, either though pipeline or power-line installations or oil- and gas-drilling activities, county Engineer Patrick Ginnetti told county commissioners.
For example, Sunoco, which is installing a new oil pipeline in an existing east-west right-of-way across Mahoning County, has paid for the recently completed repaving of Southern Boulevard between U.S. Route 224 and Washington Boulevard in Boardman.
“With Sunoco alone, we’re between 30 and 40 miles of roads that will get repaved as a result of the damages that will be incurred from their operation,” he said Thursday.
FirstEnergy is paying to repave about 20 miles of roads under another road-use maintenance agreement. In western Mahoning County, it is installing a north-south power transmission line.
“It’s going to be a record-setting year” for road repaving mileage in the county, Ginnetti said.
The engineer said his office likely will apply for State Issue 1 funds to repave Indianola Road in Boardman, which carries about 30,000 vehicles a day, next year.
The county commissioners awarded a series of contracts Thursday for county-engineer’s department projects.
They approved a $218,566 agreement with Glaus, Pyle, Schomer, Burns & DeHaven Inc. of Akron for construction management of the county’s bridge-painting and rehabilitation project.
The commissioners had awarded a $2,026,000 contract last month to APBN Inc. of Campbell to perform that bridge work this year.
The bridges to be painted are the Market Street Bridge over the Mahoning River and the Powersway Bridge over Pine Hollow, both in Youngstown, the Lowellville Road Bridge over Yellow Creek in Struthers, the Mahoning Avenue Bridge in Milton Township, the Bedell Road Bridge in Berlin Township, and the Lake Park Boulevard Bridge in Smith Township.
APBN will sandblast away rust and old paint before applying primer and new paint to the bridges.
All the bridges and any roads under them will be open to traffic during the painting.
Eighty percent of the project is federally funded, and 20 percent comes from local gasoline-tax and license-plate fee revenues.
The commissioners also approved contracts of $1,000 with Bowman Appraisal Services Inc. of Alliance for right-of-way appraisals and $8,100 with MS Consultants Inc. of Youngstown for right-of-way acquisition for next year’s replacement of the Division Street bridge over the Mahoning River in Youngstown.
The commissioners also awarded a $243,475 countywide guardrail replacement project to Lake Erie Construction Co. of Norwalk, Ohio. The guardrail project is funded 100 percent by federal money.
The commissioners also agreed to close Kennedy Road between Quarry Road and the Lowellville village line from July 16 to 19 for the 119th annual Mount Carmel Celebration.